Friday, 21 June 2013

Singapore – 03/06/2013. Progreso Training (www.progreso.com.sg) today has announced the partnership with Training Partners (www.training-partners.com.tw), the leading IT Infrastructure education provider in Taiwan to be an official ATP for providing IPv6 Forum Certification Courses in Taiwan.

As a Progreso Training Authorised Partner, Training Partners Taiwan will offer, co-market and deliver the instructor-led IPv6 courses and related services from its training centre, based in Taiwan. The centre will offer a wide ranging curriculum that includes IPv6 Forum Certified Engineer (Silver) / (Gold), Security, System Administrator (Gold), Programming and other IPv6 customised courses.

Equipped with state of the art facilities to maximize the classroom experience, the centre is designed to be a conducive and comfortable learning environment. The training faculty will focus on providing the highest quality of IPv6 training combined with latest teaching methodologies. Training Partners has a wide range of education vendors such as Cisco, VMware, Juniper, Citrix, Microsoft, Riverbed and etc. and having a close alliances with 3 Academic Partners with about 180 locations over the entire Taiwan.

Progreso Training will assist Training Partners to provide the right skills and mentoring that will allow trainees to develop and further careers in a demanding yet highly lucrative Infocomm industry.

Commenting on the new expansion, Mr Linus Tan, Business Development Director at Progreso Training said “I am delighted to partner with Training Partners Taiwan as this is the first step to start expanding the IPv6 Forum education in other regions. We believed the Centre will give trainees the opportunity to get more hands-on experience prior to going out in the real world. In addition, we will provide and support Training Partners in the marketing and training areas across the IPv6 training portfolio. I am sure that our experienced and professional faculty will provide systematic and effective training services of which certification is one of the main elements.”

Progreso Training demonstrates strong leadership by providing the most comprehensive IPv6 training programmes with highly capable trainers. It is also expanding the IPv6 education network by sourcing for potential “IPv6 Training Partners” in other regions. The IPv6 Forum education philosophy is to encourage and promote first class IPv6 education worldwide as this is the first step for IPv6 transition”, stressed by Dr Latif Ladid, President of IPv6 Forum (Global).

Monday, 24 December 2012

Progreso Training has organised a short IPv6 event on 21 December 2012 at Singapore Management University(SMU) to educate the fellow ICT professionals on the value of IPv6 technology. We have shared on some fundamentals on IPv6 and the possible learning paths for IPv6 training which the courses will be funded by the government.

During the event, we have also shared with our participants the GREAT NEWS from Progreso. We have been appointed as a NICF Programme Partner for IPv6 training and upgrading the professionals in the Infocomm industry. This programme is targeted at Network Engineer, Technical Support Engineer, Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, Technical Support Associate and Associate Security Administrator with a funding package of up to 70% course fee grant for professionals who are either Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents seeking to upgrade their skills and acquire new skills on Telecommunications and Networks in IPv6. Company sponsored participants may also enjoy additional funding benefits from this programme.

Stays tuned for our next course preview in 2013 with more updates on the funding assistance!

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) plays an important role in future Internet continuity and business growth. It connects technology equipment such as those for IT infrastructure, home appliances, mobile applications and more.

Progreso Training , the Centre of IPv6 Learning, have organised a half-day IPv6 Security Seminar that aimed to address the latest issues of IPv6 security. These included the importance of IPv6 security risks, threats and challenges in this transition presents.

Have you wondered

• why should we need to move to IPv6?

• what are some of the security concerns brought about by the adoption of IPv6?

• what are the security related considerations for planning and designs of IPv6?

• how can we train and mitigate the security challenges after the adoption of IPv6?

If you have missed our IPv6 Security Seminar and would like to know more about IPv6 Security and the course information from Progreso Training, do register with us for the IPv6 Security course preview which will be held on 14 Dec 2012, 3.30pm to 5.30pm.

Alternatively, you may contact us at +65 6509 9600 or email us at ipv6@progreso.com.sg for course enquiry.

Welcome Speech by Mr Victor Tang

The Paradox of IPv6 Security for Current and Future Networks by Mr Matthias Chin.

Monday, 5 November 2012

Progreso Networks had once again organised a half day IPv6 Introductory Workshop with topics gearing towards the common questions raised by the ICT professionals on the new IP protocol - IPv6.

In this workshop, it covered topics on:

What is IPv6 (A brief understanding of IPv6)

IPv6 Addressing

IPv6 Neighbour Discovery

Address Auto Configuring

Transition Techniques

Deployment Guidelines

Our Senior Trainer - Mr Gary Hauser, who has personally worked with either a training or consultancy role the worlds top 100 Telco’s and 125 of the worlds top MNC’s as well as Government agencies around the world. He has served on Government and international standards bodies such as the 3GPP and the Singapore Government IDA Working Groups supporting world-impacting network evolution which include the transition of the Internet to IPv6, which is currently in progress.

Monday, 22 October 2012

In this new era, businesses are bringing new technology such as cloud computing, BYOD, personal mobile devices - smartphones and tablets into the corporate networks. The life of an IT manager today has made ever more exciting by the advent of unceasing challenges as security threats continue to reign unabated, with growing complexity and sophistication into the IT infrastructure and applications.

To keep CIOs, IT Managers, Network Administrators ahead of the security threats of these trends, Mtech has organised a premier IT security conference - Security Exchange 2012 on 04 October 2012 at Raffles City Convention Centre. This event provided insights and knowledge sharing of best practices through seminars with speakers from major IT vendors.

As IPv6 is one of the emerging trends, Progreso is proud to be one of the showcase sponsor in this event.

We would appreciate delegates who have taken their time off to visit our booth during the programmes interval.